Microsoft Access 2010 Bible

Part V: Access and Windows SharePoint Services

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Creating SharePoint lists

One of the most significant features of SharePoint is that end users can add or modify SharePoint

lists without a lot of training. Although a certain skill level is required to manage a SharePoint site

(adding new users, assigning permissions, setting up the site’s basic design, and so on), adding a

new list is a simple task.

Figure 32.8 shows how a new list is added to a SharePoint site. The user clicks on the Documents

link in the menu at the left of the SharePoint window to move to the All Site Content page.

The All Site Content page is a “switchboard” of all the different libraries and lists in the site. This

particular SharePoint site currently contains libraries for documents, images, and pages.

FIGURE 32.8

The All Site Content page of a SharePoint site

All Site

Content

Create

button

The user wants to add a wiki page to the SharePoint site. A wiki is similar to an old-fashioned bul-

letin board where anyone with access to the site is able to post messages, links to articles, docu-

ments, pictures, and any other content they want to make available to other users. Site members

can post comments or feedback to the items left on the wiki.

A SharePoint wiki is just another type of SharePoint list. The main difference is that SharePoint

doesn’t limit the items posted to a wiki the way restrictions made can be imposed on an image or

document library.